Recon Wins Bounties; Notes Win Repeatability
Top bug bounty hunters run the same recon pipeline on every program: subdomains, live hosts, content discovery, parameter mining, and JS secret hunting. The differentiator is remembering which path on which program already returned a duplicate 404 three weeks ago.
Core Bug Bounty Recon Pipeline
- Scope review — wildcards, out-of-scope acquisitions, rate limits
- Subdomain enum + resolve live hosts (httpx)
- Content discovery: ffuf, feroxbuster, katana crawling
- Parameter discovery: arjun, custom wordlists, GraphQL introspection
- Nuclei / custom checks on high-value templates
Managing Multiple Programs
Use one workspace per program. HackFast projects isolate routes, credentials, and notes so HackerOne scope A never bleeds into scope B. API Route Tracker deduplicates ffuf hits automatically — critical when you rerun scans after program updates.